

Democracy's broken and these three brave souls tried to fix it. Spoiler: they lost.
A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in the 2022 Quebec provincial election, casting a critical eye on its electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional.
Direction
Cartwright's razor-sharp focus on systemic rot, not personal drama.
Writing
That opening line hits like a truck full of voting machines.

Director
Jenny Cartwright
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Quebec's first-past-the-post system has been criticized since the 1960s—this film joins a long tradition of Francophone political autopsy cinema.
Director Jenny Cartwright spent three years embedded with campaigns most media ignored, capturing what happens when idealism slams into institutional indifference.
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